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GPJA FORUM
THIS MONDAY, Nov 3, 7.30pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd,
Grey Lynn“CONFRONTING THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS:
A DISCUSSSION OF LEFT ALTERNATIVES.” Left alternative
political parties standing in the election have been invited
to address this forum and the discuss the best approach to
the global economic crisis. Groups invited are: Alliance;
Communist League; Green Party ; Maori Party; RAM; Workers
Party; Everyone welcome.

Saturday, November
1, 2pm, QEII Square, Customs Street and Queen St
intersection, Downtown Shopping CentreRALLY FOR
JUSTICE AND PEACE IN PALESTINE On the First Saturday of
Every Month. Come support JUSTICE and PEACE based on: 1.
End 41 years of Israeli Occupation of the West Bank & Gaza
Strip (including East Jerusalem) ; 2. Right of Return
for Palestinian Refugees. 3. Share Jerusalem. 4. Vacate
all settlement colonies in Israeli occupied Palestine. 5.
Stop Israel's annexation / apartheid wall in occupied
Palestine www.palestine.org.nz

Monday,
November 3, 7.30pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey
Lynn“CONFRONTING THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: A
DISCUSSSION OF LEFT ALTERNATIVES.” Left alternative
political parties standing in the election have been invited
to address this forum and the discuss the best approach to
the global economic crisis. Groups invited are: Alliance;
Communist League; Green Party ; Maori Party; RAM; Workers
Party; Everyone welcome.

Wednesday, November 5, 7.30pm,
Aotea Chapel, Methodist Central Mission, Queen St (Opposite
Town Hall)PUBLIC FORUM ON GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS:
Sen. Bob Brown; Jeanette Fitzsimons (with commentary from
Prof Tim Hazledene and Donna Wynd). Chair: John Minto. The
Green Party has organised this event to inform the political
debate on what will undoubtedly impact on the New Zealand
economy and individuals. We hope people will be informed and
have a forum which will deepen their understanding of the
Global Crisis and possible solutions.

Saturday, DECEMBER 6, 2pm, QEII Square,
Customs Street and Queen St intersection, Downtown Shopping
CentreRALLY FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE IN PALESTINE On
the First Saturday of Every Month. Come support JUSTICE and
PEACE based on: 1. End 41 years of Israeli Occupation of
the West Bank & Gaza Strip (including East Jerusalem) ;
2. Right of Return for Palestinian Refugees. 3.
Share Jerusalem. 4. Vacate all settlement colonies in
Israeli occupied Palestine. 5. Stop Israel's annexation /
apartheid wall in occupied Palestine www.palestine.org.nz

QUOTES OF THE
WEEK

“Not only have individual financial
institutions become less vulnerable to shocks from
underlying risk factors, but also the financial system as a
whole has become more resilient.” — Alan
Greenspan in 2004

"We hang the petty thieves and
appoint the great ones to public office" -
Aesop

"You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine
inches, and then pull it out six inches, and say you're
making progress." -- Malcolm X

"The test of our
progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who
have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have
little."- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"All our lauded
technological progress -- our very civilization - is like
the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." -
Albert Einstein

"Scientific progress makes moral
progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the
checks that restrain him from abusing it must be
strengthened" - Madame de Stael (French woman of
letters, political propagandist, 1766-1817)

ENVIRONMENTFear
The Coming Nature Crunch By George Monbiot - This is
nothing. Well, nothing by comparison to what's coming. The
financial crisis for which we must now pay so heavily
prefigures the real collapse, when humanity bumps against
its ecological limitshttp://www.countercurrents.org/monbiot171008.htm

IRAQVIDEO:
"The slogans are clear: no to America, no to the occupation,
no to any agreement which would leave US troops here a
moment longer. One of Moqtada al-Sadr's aids [Sheik
Abdul-Hadi al-Mohammadawi] read out a message from him
urging Iraqi Members of Parliament not to betray their
country by approving the draft agreementhttp://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/iraq181008.html

SWEDENSwedish
Peace Activists Repeatedly Break Into Weapon Factories By
Bill Quigley - Using hammers and bolt cutters, peace
activists repeatedly broke into weapon plants and damaged
weapons in Sweden. Activists from the Swedish group
OFOG/Avrusta admitted damaging twenty high explosive grenade
launchers as well as internal parts to a Howitzer 77. Five
people were arrested. Two remain in jailhttp://www.countercurrents.org/quigley201008.htm

USAThe
Diplomacy Of Lying By John Pilger - No presidential
candidate, least of all a Democrat awash with money from
America's "banksters", as Franklin Roosevelt called them,
can or will challenge a militarised system that controls and
rewards him. Obama's job is to present a benign, even
progressive face that will revive America's democratic
pretensions, internationally and domestically, while
ensuring nothing of substance changes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21093.htmThe
Torturer's Tale By Jolyon Jenkins - Tony Lagouranis was
trained by the US Army to torture Iraqis. This is why he
stopped, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21096.htm

The Government has approved a negotiating mandate for Trans-Pacific Partnership 11 (TPP11), which will ensure New Zealand businesses remain competitive in overseas markets.

Trade Minister Todd McClay says New Zealand will be pushing for the minimal number of changes possible to the original TPP agreement, something that the remaining TPP11 countries have agreed on. More>>

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As a desperate Turnbull government tries to treat the Barnaby Joyce affair as a Pauline Hanson fever dream – blame it on the foreigners! We’re the victims of the dastardly New Zealand Labour Party! – our own government has chosen to further that narrative, and make itself an accomplice. More>>

Wellington City Council is partnering with the University of Otago, Wellington, to launch a voluntary Rental Warrant of Fitness for minimum housing standards in Wellington, Mayor Justin Lester has announced. More>>

“The Crown acknowledges Moriori was left virtually landless from 1870, hindering its cultural, social and economic development. The Crown also acknowledges its contribution to the myths that the people of Moriori were racially inferior and became extinct." More>>

ALSO:

Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy is in Geneva and has asked a United Nations committee to urge the New Zealand government to initiate an inquiry into the physical and sexual abuse of children and disabled people held in state institutions. More>>

The commitment was signed this afternoon by the leaders of Labour, United Future, The Maori Party, and the Green Party and, together with the earlier commitment by New Zealand First, means that there is now a Parliamentary majority behind the families’ fight for truth and justice. More>>